Cloudy Apple Juice For Fat Loss

A daily glass of cloudy apple juice may decrease body fat in obese people, compared to a control beverage, with greater effects noted in individuals with certain genetic profiles.

Four weeks of drinking 750 mL per day glass of cloudy apple juice providing 802.5 mg polyphenols were associated with a statistically significant 1% reduction in total body fat and a 1.25 kg increase in lean body mass.

In individuals with a certain genetic profile, the reductions in total body fat were as high as 2%, report researchers from the Max Rubner-Institut in Karlsruhe, and the Research Institute of Geisenheim in Germany.

“This is the first intervention study that addressed the question whether a polyphenol-rich cloudy apple juice shows bioactivity on obesity-associated biomarkers also including the potential role of genetic polymorphisms regarding a potential diet–gene interaction,” they wrote in the European Journal of Nutrition .

The German researchers recruited 68 obese non-diabetic men to participate in their controlled, randomized, parallel study. Participants were randomly assigned to received 750 mL per day of cloudy apple juice or a control beverage for four weeks.

Results showed that the men in the cloudy apple juice group displayed significant reductions in total body fat of 1%, compared with 0.2% in the control group.

In terms of specific genes, the researchers noted that the IL-6-174 G/C polymorphism showed a relationship with body fat reduction. Specifically, the C/C form was associated with a 2% reduction in total body fat after 4 weeks of cloudy apple juice intervention, but no effects were observed for the G/C or G/G variants.